it's pretty par for the course nowadays that it would take a late-night variety show to actually spend the 30 seconds in front of google necessary to find out just how skeevy the whole invisible children thing actually is
@ukstanduptv100 You have my utmost respect, I also apologise! I was under the pump with study actually hehe, but seriously good on you for being a lover and not a hater, so refreshing!
I know you wrote that comment over a month ago but Fenton is the dog in the RU-vid video "Jesus Christ In Richmond Park". Look it up if you haven;t already, it's hilarious.
the people of invisible children have been going to my high school for years. the video they showed was going to africa and talking to victims but most of us fell asleep
For 3 it was reported by al Jazeera. Look up: 'Uganda Speaks in response to Kony2012' alJazeera and 'Kony screening provokes anger in Uganda' al Jazeera
That's a little cruel to berate a entire gathering of people who manage to show even a smidgen of compassion for their fellow man, especially in this day and age...even if the person who persuaded them to is crooked as hell
how do you even know that Kony is a bad guy.. You have no doubt yet I bet you have absolutely no idea who he even is.. Taking a standpoint just because someone said he's bad is just as wrong as falling for the whole scam.
I watched Kony 2012 on RU-vid and at first I didn't really care but now looking back, it's stupid. #1 The LRA is no longer in Uganda. Making awareness of Kony in Uganda is like making awareness of Hitler in Europe. #2 This has no meaning to us. I mean whats the likelyhood of us seeing Kony eating at our local McDonalds or shopping at the local Kmart in say the US, Philippines or New Zealand. #3 Ugandans hate it. When they showed it in a village in Uganda, they threw rocks at it then left.
I never said anything about donating to Invisible Children or invading Uganda, and I agree with you about Museveni 100%. The person I replied to, however, implied that Kony wasn't culpable at all, which is what I objected to.
I just want to say Kony is my hero and I try to be like him in everything I do. Even went to recruit some local kids so I might be able to achieve my ultimate goal... Being the next Kony!! Kony FTW!!!
That is very much so not the definition of cynicism. Criticism is to judge and analyse, Cynicism is an attitude of jaded negativity. Often resulting in, but not restricted to a distrust of the integrity or motives of others. As you see, Criticising is the act of Questioning and judging motives, cynicism is to distrust motives and integrity due to past experiences. Don't worry, it's a common mistake, rpx1979.
I live in a rural Australian city and there were KONY2012 posters put up on a few street light posts here, but I was hugely amused to see that they were mostly bearing the American donkey and elephant and carried a message of uniting. I don't want to look down on the local teens, but I'd be surprised if the majority of them even knew what that symbolised and how irrelevant it is to Australia.
dunno if it's still there but there used to be one of those with the elephant and donkey on a roundabout in Hereford. It was up for years, maybe it still is. always found it amusing
Joseph Kony was one of the most outstanding officers this country has ever produced. He was a brilliant and outstanding in every way and he was a good man too. Humanitarian man, man of wit, of humor. He joined the Special forces. After that his ideas, methods have become unsound. Unsound. Now he has crossed to Uganda with his Montagnard army, who worship the man, like a god, and follow every order however ridiculous. Well, you see. In this war, things get confused out there, power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity. Out there with these natives it must be a temptation to be god. Because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have. Joseph Kony has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane. He's out there operating without any decent restraint. Totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding his troops. Hey, man, you don't talk to Kony. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, “do you know that if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you.” I mean I'm no, I can't. I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's. He's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas... He can be terrible, he can be mean, he can be right. He's fighting the war. He's a great man. I mean. I wish I had words. The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad. Oh yeah. He's dying, I think. He hates all this, he hates it! But the man's uh he reads poetry out loud, alright? And a voice! A voice. He likes you because you're still alive. He's got plans for you. Nah, nah, I'm not going to help you, you're going to help him, man. You're going to help him. I mean, what are they going to say, man, when he's gone, huh? Because he dies, when it dies, man, when it dies, he dies. What are they going to say about him? What, are they going to say, he was a kind man, he was a wise man, he had plans, he had wisdom? Bullshit, man! Am I going to be the one, that's going to set them straight? Look at me: wrong! You!
DAMN CHARACTER LIMIT - CAN’T TEAR THIS APART! Sorry kids but your plight is out of date! Criticism of Kony2012 is often fair, insightful & constructive - yours isn’t. At least Russell is doing something he believes in (not sitting on his self-righteous ass joking about child soldiers!) I’m NOT religious AT ALL & I think your attempt to discredit Russell on that basis is cheap. Any manifestation of altruism & compassion is conducive of progress. I do agree with you on Jolie. Seriously, wtf!
@ukstanduptv100 It's okay, you know when you express an opinion and you feel okay about people disagreeing because you know that your view is well-reasoned, well-informed and fair... yours might be too because it's actually okay to disagree you know. The problem is with people who cannot handle other points of view. That's your failure. Not mine. So no fail on my part but thanks for your useless input :-) How about you say something constructive and meaningful sometime?
@bagetka007 it's sick, even if it's just a joke - you don't even know what you're saying, small mind, blurred vision, it's sad that you have to go through life like that, all the best with it you'll probably die very happy and fulfilled and your compassion will no doubt have a domino refect and reward you plenty
